RAW & SHIV SENA:
ATS DIG killed in Nov terror was including more names of army officers invloved in the Malegaon terror. On Nov. 26 2008 he had taken remand of suspect from court and was to proceed for the arrest of further suspects including army men. The Shiv Sena acted on opend roads while Raw agents acted inside Hotels and narimahouse who were later protected and let go by the operational forces. I am reproducing articles published in Time of India in issue of Nov 27, 2008:
Article 1:
Karkare led Maha team to meet NSA in Delhi
Pranati Mehra & S Balakrishnan | TNN
Mumbai: ATS chief Hemant Karkare, who was killed in the terror attack on Wednesday night, met national security adviser M K Narayanan and the chief of army intelligence in Delhi on Tuesday, sources told TOI on Wednesday.
Parambir Singh and Sukhvinder Singh, both additional commissioners working with Karkare, accompanied the state ATS chief to Delhi.
The MCOCA hearing had been marked by allegations of torture in ATS custody. But the meeting in Delhi could have been on weightier issues.
The ATSs faux pas in the Nashik court, when it alleged that Lt-Col Purohits role in the Samjhauta blast of February 2007, had put the Indian government in a bind.
The meeting of home secretaries of India and Pakistan is taking place in Islamabad this week and the ATSs allegation against Purohit may come in handy to debunk Indias claims that the blast was the handiwork of the ISI.
Sources also said Lt-Col Purohits role was discussed in detail. The officers lawyer argued in court that he had done conducted of the best operations in the country and Indians should be proud of him.
The Centre feared that if Purohit discloses to the court or to the media details of covert operations carried out by him for the military intelligence, then it would face a major embarrassment at the international level.
Purohit had taken part in several sensitive operations in J&K and the Northeast. What is also worrying the Centre is the disclosure made by both Lt-Col Purohit and another accused, Chaturvedi, that non-Wahabi Muslims had taken part in the conspiracy to plant bombs in Malegaon.
The Centre is also concerned that the exact source of the RDX believed to have been smuggled by Lt-col Purohit has not been identified. Earlier, the ATS said it was sourced from an army ordnance depot, but Purohit said in his narco-analysis that it was obtained from some Kashmiri Muslims in Pune.
IN THE NET: Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey at a special MCOCA court on Wednesday
Article 2:
Godman in cop custody till Dec 1
Kartikeya | TNN
Mumbai: The anti-terrorism squad (ATS) came to court with some concrete evidence on Wednesday while asking for the custody of Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey, a key accused in the Malegaon blast case.
The agency had suffered a setback on Monday when a special MCOCA court refused to allow it to interrogate some of the accused after their lawyers said no new evidence had been found against them by the investigators.
Dwivedi was sent to police custody till December 1 after the prosecution said incriminating material was found in two laptops seized from him.
Special public prosecutor Rohini Salian told the court that the laptops had video recordings of conspiratorial meetings where the other main accusedLt-Col Purohit and sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakurwere present. Judge Y D Shinde was told that the accused also talk of detonators, grenades as well as weapons.
The ATS claimed in court that it had also obtained transcripts of telephonic conversations between Dwivedi and another man, where the former allegedly said it will be good if destruction was caused. Some CDs with propaganda material have also been recovered, the court was told.
The court was informed that Dwivedi had been in touch with Lt-Col Purohit and the sadhvi, both of whom were alleged to have been instrumental in planning and executing the Malegaon blast on September 29. Salian said the ATS received a report on Dwivedis laptop from the forensic science laboratory on Tuesday and needed more time to study its implications vis-a-vis the investigation.
Dwivedi stood quietly in a corner during the court proceedings. He made no complaints of torture but, just before he was to be whisked away by the police, he stepped into the witness box and told judge Shinde that he had nothing to do with the conspiracy. I did attend three meetings of Abhinav Bharat but only as a religious leader, he said. My only fault is that I was in contact with the others named in the case.
Dwivedi pleaded that the ATS allow him to wear his saffron robes and not keep him in the kurta-pyjama. I want to wear my rudraksh mala, he said. The court allowed him to shave his beard and said the investigating officer could decide when he would be able to wear his clothes.
Purohits house searched again
The Pune unit of the state ATS on Wednesday searched Lt-Col Prasad Purohits bungalow on Law College Road for the second time since his arrest. Lt-Col Purohits grandmother and sister were present in the house during the search, said relatives. We wanted to conduct a thorough search, and it was part of our routine exercise, ATS Pune chief inspector Peter Lobo said. Officials said they wanted to check if arms, explosives or important documents were hidden in the house. TNN
Article 3:
ATS unearths Hindu Rashtra plot
Mateen Hafeez | TNN
Mumbai: Investigation into the Malegaon blast has revealed that the suspects were looking beyond maiming the textile town. They were actually working to convert India into a Hindu Rashtra by 2025.
Interrogation of Sudhakar Dwivedi alias Dayanand Pandey, who is in police custody till December 1, has revealed that the group was working to create an Aryavarta Rashtra in India, an ATS official said.
They wanted to make India like what it was when it was ruled by the Aryans; their dream was to convert the country into a Hindu Rashtra and an Akhand Bharat, an official said.
The suspects planned to infiltrate government departments everywhere in the country with like-minded people and then convert India from a secular country into a Hindu Rashtra, officials said. They had also planned their life in exile if their conspiracy was foiled and they happened to be ousted by the government. Purohit assured some of the other accused that they would contact other nations for asylum if they faced any problem, one of them added.
But why didnt the interrogation of Lt-Col Purohit reveal this fact? An official said, We did not imagine that the suspects would have such a plan. Our main focus was on the Malegaon blast. So, we compiled questions focusing only on the blast for narco analysis. It was only after the examination of Dwivedis laptop that we came to know about this.
Dwivedi, arrested from Kanpur on November 14 for a suspected role in Septembers Malegaon blast, is accused of instructing Lt-Col Purohit to procure the RDX and execute the blast. The ATS has arrested 11 people so far.
Dwivedi is also believed to have told ATS sleuths that he first joined the Indian Air Force in 1989 but opted out in 1990.
Officials managed to seize his two laptops before he could destroy them. The police found records of over 15 meetings Dwivedi had with the other accused in the blast. Purohit used to videograph these meetings and, at one of these meetings, Abhinav Bharat convener Sameer Kulkarni is seen discussing funds collected for their cause, an official said.
Special public prosecutor Rohini Salian has told a MCOCA court that Dwivedi is clearly heard asking others to now listen to my plan about the blast. We have to do our duty in the interest of the nation and justice, Salian said, referring to the larger conspiracy. Dwivedi is also seen talking about RDX, remote controls, timers, short- and long-range weapons and the conspiracy, Salian has told the court.
Sena calls bandh against torture
Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray called for a Maharashtra bandh on December 1 in protest against the alleged harsh treatment meted out to sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Lt-Col Purohit and others arrested in connection with the Malegaon bomb blast. Our commitment is to Hindutva. We dont mind paying the fine to court. If the court is going to send us to jail, we are ready for it, said Sanjay Raut, Sena MP and executive editor of Saamna. TNN
The above story was related to morning of Nov 26, 2008 and in a very hasty manner the perpetrators had acted in the evening of Nov 26, 2008. The blame game is not workable. The US security adviser had said that the Mumbai Drama was like Oklahama, Arizona when a federal building was exploded with 500 deaths.
This for the indians to decide the future of their country whether indian nation has become hostage in the hands of so called Hindu militants who are acting in the maner of Al-Qaeda.
Without prejudice to the Space requirement I futher add few new things along with my previous research in quote above.
The killing ATS chief and two additional commissioners had created a cold war like situation between Inidan police and Army. In addition to above three articles the following two articles are reproduced:
Article 4:
Is Purohit the man who knows too much?
27 Nov 2008, 0539 hrs IST, Pranati Mehra & S Balakrishnan, TNN
MUMBAI: Maharashtra's ATS chief Hemant Karkare met the national security advisor (NSA) M K Narayanan and the chief of Army intelligence in Delhi on
Tuesday along with two of his officers, sources told TOI on Wednesday.
Parambir Singh and Sukvinder Singh, both additonal commissioners working with Karkare, accompanied him to Delhi.
The meeting came a day after the ATS lost face in the MCOCA court of Mumbai when the special judge Y D Shinde refused to give ATS the custody of the Sadhvi and Lt-Col P S Purohit though it was the first court hearing after the police had invoked MCOCA.
The MCOCA hearing had been marked by allegations of torture in ATS custody by most of the accused. But the meeting in Delhi could have been on weightier issues. The ATS's faux pas in the Nashik court last Saturday when it alleged Purohit's role in the Samjhauta train blast of February 2007, has put the Indian government in a bind.
The meeting of home secretaries of India and Pakistan is taking place in Islamabad this week and the ATS's allegation against Purohit may come handy to that country to debunk India's claims that the Samjhauta blast was the handiwork of the ISI.
Sources also say the role of Purohit was discussed in further detail. The officer's lawyer had argued in court that he had done some of the best operations in the country and the Indians should be proud of him. Purohit has worked in intelligence in J&K and would have been privy to some very sensistive information.
The Centre fears that if Purohit discloses to the court or to the media, after his release on bail, details of covert operations carried out by him for military intelligence then it would internationally face a major embarrassment. Purohit had taken part in several sensitive operations in J& K and Northeast.
What is also worrying the Centre is the disclosure made under narco-analysis by both Purohit and another accused Chaturvedi that non-Wahabi Muslims had taken part in the conspirary to plant bombs in Malegaon. If this is true then it reveals a nexus between fanatic Hindu elements and certain Muslim groups. The Centre is also concerned that so far the exact source of RDX believed to have been smuggled by Purohit has not been identified so far.
Article 5:
ATS asks Army to scan Purohit's military intelligence colleagues
27 Nov 2008, 0534 hrs IST, Diwakar, TNN
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: The interrogation of Malegaon blast suspect Lt Col Shrikant Purohit has led the Maharashtra ATS to look more closely at the
"political views" of some of his colleagues in the Army.
Sources disclosed that ATS has asked Army authorities to closely scan the activities of a small group of officers, ranking from majors to colonels, while clarifying that it still did not have enough to link them to the conspiracy behind the September 29 blast in the powerloom town.
The officers who have been put under surveillance appear to have a lot in common with Purohit. The foremost similarity, sources said, was the anger among them about nothing being done to protect the 'Hindu Rashtra' against jehadi terrorists and other threats, and a strong desire to avenge the serial blasts allegedly carried out by jehadi bombers.The officials are, like Purohit, from military intelligence who, again like the jailed officer, served at one point or the other at Deolali, Pune or Panchmarhi.
From the information it has gathered from Purohit, ATS suspects that the officers at least a couple of them who are from Maharashtra might have been aware of both the Lt Col's affiliation to Abhinav Bharat, as well as the "revenge" agenda of the Indore-based ultra-Hindutva organisation.
Purohit has denied that his MI peers were aware of how he planned to execute the agenda, and the assertion is borne out by the check run on the group by the Army.
"They don't seem to be guilty of any act of commission. But we have to verify if there were ommisions on the part of the group because of the ideological affinity, as hinted by Purohit, with Abhinav Bharat's agenda," said a well-placed source.
When contacted, an Army spokesman denied that new names from its ranks have been put under the scanner. "ATS has not sought permission, officially or unofficially, to question anybody else. In fact, we approached ATS after media reports whether anyone else from the Army was involved. We were told no other name had come up during investigations," said the spokesman.
Sources, however, said that new names have already been passed on to Army which, as in the case of Purohit, was fully cooperating. "They have been very cooperative and have asked the investigators not to hestiate in asking for any assistance. As a matter of fact, they have themselves been very concerned and determined to eliminate all doubts," they said of the Army's response. As Abhinav Bharat remains the focus of the Malegaon probe, ATS is looking at the role of Jindal, a Pune-based businessman who runs a foundry, in funding the activities of the Hindutva hardline outfit, while Dr R P Singh, the diabetes specialist from New Delhi, remains on the hook.
Dr Singh, who drifted closer to Abhinav Bharat after RSS, under its leader Indresh Kumar, refused to oppose the agitation in Nepal against itsnow-deposed Hindu monarch, has denied his involvement in any criminalconspiracy. However, the ATS is still not sure whether his affinity with Abhinav Bharat activists like Purohit, the so-called Shankaracharya and others did not extend beyond a similarity of views.
The probe so far speaks of the success of Abhinav Bharat in winning over the activists of RSS and VHP who found the response of the two saffron oufits too tepid to meet the "challenge" of jehadis and other anti-Hindu elements.
APPREHENSIONS:
The perturbed criminal elements could go further to save their skin and we should apprehend similar type of incidents. The Pakistan Interior Secretary and Indian counter part should discuss the on going situation from every angle to save further deterioration of relations.
